We take a look back at the 7-1 beating Germany gave Brazil in the World Cup.

German football writer Christian Eichler, an author for the broadsheet Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, has published a 285-page book about the 2014 World Cup semifinal between Germany and Brazil.

The book released earlier this week is called "7-1: The Game of the Century," while the tagline reads: "When the Brazilian myth broke and Germany's fourth star began to rise," and each chapter recounts one minute of the match.

The semifinal between hosts Brazil and eventual World Cup winners Germany has...

Lukas Podolski wants to help Inter Milan get back to their position as one of the top clubs in European football.

When Lukas Podolski was officially presented as an Inter player on Thursday, he said an important reason he decided to join the Nerazzurri was that he had "positive meetings with Piero Ausilio and Roberto Mancini," the director of sport and the coach, respectively.

But Podolski was also aware of the fact that Inter have a long and occasionally very successful history of German players. When he was a kid, growing up in Bergheim near Cologne, West Germany won the 1990 World Cup in Italy largely...

If Davie Selke remains focused and lives up to his potential, he has the physical tools and technical ability to become Germany's starting striker.

While it is time to sum up 2014, allow me to name the best transfer of 2013 instead. No, not Gareth Bale, but rather a bargain that cost 2,000 times less than the Welshman. How about signing a future Germany centre-forward for just 50,000 euros?

Such a deal might sound like science fiction, but that's exactly what Werder Bremen managed to accomplish when signing Hoffenheim's Davie Selke in the January transfer window nearly two years ago.

We brought you the news last week that Mario Gotze's World Cup-winning boot was going up for auction. On Saturday evening, it brought 2 million euros ($2.45 million) during a televised charity auction.

An anonymous benefactor paid the huge sum for the historic boot -- which struck the goal against Argentina in extra time to seal Germany's 1-0 win in Brazil in July -- and it will be displayed in the soon-to-be-opened German Football Museum in Dortmund.

ESPN FC's Craig Burley and Paul Mariner seem to be a bit wary of Manuel Neuer's inclusion in FIFA's short list for the 2014 Ballon d'Or.

On Tuesday, German football magazine 11 Freunde published a lengthy for-and-against piece on Manuel Neuer's suitability for the Ballon d'Or award. The section backing the Bayern Munich keeper ended with "Manuel Neuer will be the world's best player." Clicking on the Contra section brought readers to a blank page.

It's a good gag because it plays on a deeper truth. There are no good reasons not to give the Golden Ball to the 28-year-old, at least not from a German perspective. Goalkeepers have always...

This was the moment Mario Gotze won the World Cup for Germany -- and you can win the boot he used to score.

Mario Gotze has decided to auction off the very left boot he so deftly dangled to score Germany's World Cup-winning goal during extra time in 2014's final against Argentina, with all the proceeds going to a German childrens' charity.

Gotze is selling his famous yellow boot to raise funds for "A Heart For Children", with the man himself rousing potential bidders by adding that the boot also comes complete with a small bonus amount of the famous Maracana turf still affixed to it.